Zomato Founder Deepinder Goyal Defends Temple Against Doctors: $30M Spent, 'Not a Scam'
prasanna_says · x · 2026-11-07
Zomato/Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal publicly responded to Indian doctors questioning the scientific validity of Temple, his AI health device, sparking a heated exchange on X.
Goyal's key arguments:
- Temple offers 14-day no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India); a scam would die before recovering a tenth of its R&D
- $30M already spent, $20M of it his own money — selling a few thousand devices recovers only a fraction, so no one would run such a "scam"
Doctors' rebuttal (via DrRishabhOnco):
- A return policy is not scientific validation — placebo effects can also make patients feel better
- Spending $30M doesn't prove efficacy; expensive technologies have failed rigorous testing throughout medical history
- Personal reputation and customer investment are not independent evidence
The core dispute: Temple's team answered demands for scientific scrutiny with business and investment figures, which critics called a non-answer.
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